yay chapter 3!!! I'm currently working on chapter 4 and I hope to get it up in the next few days, but if I don't, bare with me!
Chapter 3: Halloween Day
It was the day before Halloween, and I was scrambling for a costume. Smart aren't I? I finally decided on being a dead purple cow. Don't ask. It was a purple cow suit, with the head and all, and it had random splotches of blood all over it that made it look like it had been shot about 20 times. I got the strangest looks walking down the halls on Halloween, despite what day it was. You'd think I had grown a second head. I sat down at my seat in math, in a considerably better mood than normal. Tobi walked in soon after, and his costume made me burst out laughing, which probably looked pretty random as I was wearing a purple cow suit. Tobi was apparently being grapes for Halloween. Big, green, grapes. His costume looked as if he had made it himself (which he probably had) and the orange swirly mask and black clothes on underneath made it look even more ridiculous. Tobi was followed into the large classroom by Sasori. Seeing him made me fall out of my chair, laughing harder than I had at the idiot who sat beside me.
Sasori was wearing a pink tutu, pink leotard, and a pink sparkly shirt. He had blush on his face, pink eye shadow, and bright pink lipstick. He also wore ballet slippers, and a tiara in his hair. That was probably the funniest sight I've ever seen. I looked around quickly, making sure the teacher wasn't looking when I pulled out my cell phone and snapped a picture on him before shoving it back in the pocket of my cow suit, laughing my ass off.
"Awwwwww Sasori you look ADORABLE!!!" I cooed, bursting out laughing again. He glared at me, though I could see a trace of amusement in his face at the cow suit. "I'm guessing Konan helped?" I raised an eyebrow, though he couldn't see it thanks to the massive cow head I was wearing. He nodded, clearly not impressed with his costume. I couldn't wait to see what everyone else was wearing.
Nobody really got any work done in math, so I had a shitload of homework. Great. I was supposed to be going to the mansion that the Akatsuki now resided in with Fire today after school, and get Hidan ready to be our decoration for tonight. We were only going to have one decoration, but it would be enough.
I walked through the crowded hallways, straining my neck to see above the sea of heads to see if I could find Deidara. I really wanted to know what his costume was. I saw a flash of brilliant blonde and I scanned over Deidara's costume, laughing openly. I was carrying the cow head so everyone could see who it was looking like an utter retard. My eyes met Dei's and he smirked.
"Nice, un" he said with a laugh.
"You too" I grinned. He looked good in his costume. Apparently he was being a pirate. He wore an eye patch on the eye hidden under his bangs, so all you could see of it was the strings holding it on. He wore an old-fashioned button up coat that really looked as if it belonged on a pirate, and the perfect hat, complete with a blood red feather sticking out of it. He wore tight black pants and brown boots, and he really looked as if he belonged in an old pirate story, other than the long blonde ponytail that stuck out from the back of his hat. He had even cut a hole for it. He had black leather gloves instead of the normal cotton ones with the fingers cut off that he normally wore, and he had a thin plastic sword hanging at his waist. "Aren't we not allowed to bring weapons to school? Like, even fake ones?" I inquired, raising an eyebrow. He smirked. Of course we weren't, but he did anyways. Of course.
"I've got a written letter from Pein threatening anyone who tried to take it away, un" he said with a laugh. I could definitely see that, and I laughed with him.
"Well I'll see you at lunch!" I said with a wave, and I dashed off between people again, which was much more difficult with a cow costume on.
We all had to change out of our costumes for gym, and I was glad to be out of the damned dead purple cow suit. Fire had her hair dyed red, and she had two 'tattoos' under her eyes, though it was really only red marker. She was being Reno from Final Fantasy 7 for Halloween, as she had for the past few years, and she had the costume pretty much perfect. We walked into the gym and sat down, waiting for Konan. I heard a prep squealing and I looked over. I was confused, so I got up and snuck up behind them, ignoring Fire's eye rolling as she watched my curiosity get the better of me. I kept my eyes on the tiled gym floor as I snuck up on them, trying not to make a sound. I peered over one of their shoulder, looking at the piece of paper the girl who was squealing held. I stopped dead in my tracks at the sight of the picture, and I recognized it to having been taken the day before. I clenched my fists and glared at the girl.
"What the fuck, do you think you're doing?" I asked coldly, barely controlling my anger. I don't think the girl knew that it was my boyfriend's picture she held, but she pulled it to her overlarge chest anyways.
"Looking at a picture of my future boyfriend. Now back off bitch" she replied, turning her back to me.
"Your future boyfriend is he? I highly doubt that. Fucking bitch-ass ho!" I tried not to screech the last part as I threw myself on her, punching her in the face once I had pushed her to the ground. I threw my knee into her gut as I punched her in the face a few more times. Never, get a fangirl angry, especially when she's dating the person she's obsessed with. I barely heard the noise around me as I beat the crap out of this girl. I felt her nails digging into my arm as she pathetically tried to stop me. She was screaming, and I don't know where the teacher was, but her 'friends' had backed up against the wall, staring at me fearfully as I screamed insults and curses at her. She managed to push me back a little, but I smacked her across the face, screaming louder. I could head Fire's voice, and then it was joined by Konan's, but in my blinding rage I couldn't hear what they were saying, or rather, yelling. I felt two sets of arms on me, trying to pull me off, but it did little. I snapped at Fire's hand, and she gave a surprised yelp and let go, leaving Konan to try to pull me off, though she quickly grabbed hold again.
The girl was turning black and blue despite everyone's efforts to make me stop. She was crying, but I didn't care. I hoped she learned her lesson. Then I randomly heard Fire's voice, and I only distinctly heard one word.
"Blah blah blah blah Tobi!" was what I heard. In reality, Fire had finally turned to Tobi who was on the other side of the gym in his class (there was no teacher there either so they weren't doing anything) and he hadn't noticed anything until Fire yelled "TOBI! COME HELP US! HUG UR SEMPAI". Hearing his name, my head snapped around to see the orange masked teen hurdling himself in my direction. I screamed and got off of the smaller girl quickly, running to the far corner of the gym where Tobi followed, and I ran away again.
"BOOK IT!" I screamed as I ran and hid behind Fire, which didn't work very well as she was shorter than me. When the masked man followed me again I turned and punched him in the face, which successfully knocked him out. I sat down where I was, pulling my knees up and burying my face in them. "Shit I'm in a lot of trouble aren't I?"
I looked up at my friends, who were looking at me with a mixture of pity and anger. I glanced at the unconscious Tobi, and then at the girl I had beaten up, who was being escorted to the bathroom on shaky legs by her friends. Friends who hadn't done anything as I beat the crap out of her, yet she turned to them when I was done. Pathetic. She still made me pissed off, and I couldn't say that I regretted what I did, because I didn't. Fire and Konan sat down beside me shook their heads.
"Yeah, you're probably in a lot of shit" Fire said. Well that definitely cheered me up. "But what was that about anyways? All I heard was something about a bitch-ass ho. . . that part was kinda loud". I looked at my friends and got up, walking over to the piece of paper that lay forgotten on the ground. I brought it back to our little circle and sat down before showing it to them. They both made 'oooooh' sounds when they saw the picture of Deidara I was holding, that had little hearts drawn all around the main picture.
Tobi was conscious by lunch, and the bitch came back from the bathroom with makeup covering all of her bruises, and she looked at me fearfully as she retreated to the far corner of the gym. I figured she was too proud to let people know that she had gotten beaten up, so I might not get in trouble for that. And Tobi, well, he wouldn't tattle on me. I had reasons to believe that he had a crush on me. It was slightly creepy. The teacher showed up at the very end of class, and he apologized profusely for being so late, and he asked if we had been behaving for the entire time we were unsupervised. I almost burst out laughing as everyone nodded, including the bitch, though her eyes strayed to me. Once she saw that I had caught her looking at me her gaze quickly snapped back to the teacher as the bell rang.
"I sure as HELL, am probably the luckiest person on the face of the planet. I knocked out one kid and beat the crap out of another in one class and I didn't even get in trouble!" I laughed with relief as we walked to join the rest of the Akatsuki for lunch. I was back in my cow costume, Fire back in her black pants, white dress shirt, and black jacket, and Konan was also back in her costume. I swear I thought she was a stripper when I first saw her. She was apparently going as Brittany Spears. She was wearing a gold bikini with a white bathrobe with a big 'BS' on the front pocket of it. When Fire commented on the 'BS' I said it meant that she looked like bullshit. Her costume was completed by a blonde wig, though nobody but us and the Akatsuki knew that she was wearing perfectly skin toned tight pants that weren't even noticeable.
We were the first ones on the grass for once, and we took our respective seats in our circle, leaving enough spaces for who was to sit there. I had the cow head on the grass behind me and I leaned against it. We were all looking at the people milling around for a glimpse of one of our friends. Tobi had been talking to me non-stop once he had regained consciousness, and didn't take the hint that I didn't want to talk to him since I was completely ignoring him and talking to Fire and Konan.
Sasori and Itachi were the first ones to reach us, and Fire and I both burst out laughing at them. Sasori's outfit just didn't get old. I could be laughing all day. Fire hadn't seen him yet today, but she had seen Itachi, so we were both laughing at one of them, though a different one. It wasn't really that confusing though. Itachi was dressed as an i-Pod. No joke. He was wearing a purple i-Pod Nano suit, and his face was in the middle of the screen. His arms and legs were sticking out of it and clad in what looked like purple silk. Konan had waaaay too much fun with their costumes. They both glared at us as they took their respective seats and we all waited for the rest to join us, though Fire and I laughed every time we glanced at any of the people in the circle.
Kisame and Kakuzu walked up now, and neither of them looked too impressed with their costumes. I think the only one who I'd seen who did so for was Tobi and Deidara. And Fire of course. Kisame was wearing all green, his arms were like giant leaves, and the hat he was wearing surrounded his face with petals. Yes, this fish was now a flower. Kakuzu however, was now a giant spool of thread. Ironic. He looked exactly the same except that he was wearing all beige clothes and he had a length of thick black string tied around his torso, and what looked like it was supposed to be the ends of the spool around his neck and waist. Fire and I burst out laughing again, not able to help ourselves. Konan really wanted to make them look ridiculous. Only two people were left, and our circle would be complete. Sadly, it was the people Fire and I longed to see the most.
I didn't even recognize Hidan when he walked up with Deidara. He was dressed as schoolgirl. Wearing a miniskirt and a white blouse, he had a blonde wig on his head done in pigtails. He had something stuffed in his short to make it look even more like he was a girl, and he had bubblegum in his mouth. Both Fire and I burst out laughing at the sight, though I was sure that Fire's eyes were travelling up and down his tall form.
"TRANNY!!!" I yelled, still laughing. I was probably laughing more today than I ever had in my life, but it was hard not to. He flipped me off as he took his seat between Kakuzu and Fire, and Deidara took his seat between Sasori and I with a grin.
For the entire lunch period we talked about our plans for the night, and what we would be changing our costumes to. For the first half of the night we were going to get Hidan to be our decoration at Fire's house, and then we would have some fun running around the streets all night, as it was a Friday. Fire's parents and mine had both allowed us to stay overnight at 'Konan's house' having no idea that she lived with nine guys. It would definitely be an interesting night.
"So what's with the cow suit?" Kisame asked me with a grin.
"Well, my Granddad always used to say 'I've never seen a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But I'll tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one!'. So I decided that I was going to be a purple cow, but then I was bored so I poured some red paint I found that looks exactly like blood in random places. So I'm a dead purple cow" I explained, looking down at my costume. I hadn't heard my Granddad say that in a long time. Probably because I wasn't three anymore, even if he treated me like it. Everyone laughed at my explanation, except for Sasori and Itachi. Of course.
I walked down the hall to Science with Deidara, Fire and Hidan. Walking up the stairs, I tripped. Not out of the ordinary for me, but falling up the stairs was pretty humiliating. They all laughed at me, including many people I didn't know who stopped to watch on their way to class. Deidara helped me up, and I picked up the binder I had dropped, along with my book and my pencil case.
"Thanks" I muttered, keeping my head down as I walked through the still laughing people. We got to the classroom and sat down, grinning when we found out that we were conducting another experiment today. I love experiments.
"Um. . . Deidara. . . I need you to tie back all of your hair" Ms. Dignem said, indicating to the large chunk of hair that covered his face.
"What, un!? No! I'm not putting my bangs back!" the blonde protested, patting his blonde bangs lightly as if to ensure that they stayed in place.
"Deidara you must tie it back, unless you want them to catch fire. It's a safety issue" the teacher sighed impatiently, but the blonde refused.
"I don't care, un. I'm used to working with dangerous stuff like this". I laughed at this. I hadn't actually seen him blow anything up yet seeing as I hadn't seen him anywhere other than school sadly, though he said he would blow some shit up for me tonight. Ms. Dignem sighed and rolled her eyes.
We were working with the chemicals, and I picked up a vial of bright red acid. Apparently it was really dangerous and we weren't allowed to touch the vial without rubber gloves as a precaution. Hidan picked up the vial as well, and he looked at it for a moment. He rolled up the sleeve of his white blouse and dripped a drop of the acid onto his arm, hissing as it burnt through his flesh and dripped through to drop onto the floor. It was a rather large drop he had poured, and as it ate through the floor and disappeared a scream was audible from the person who sat underneath Hidan on the first floor, as we were on the second.
"Shit. . ." he muttered, dropping to his knees and peering through the hole to see the kid who was clutching the burn mark on his forehead. He had obviously looked up to see why pieces of the ceiling had been disintegrating and falling on him. The albino burst out laughing, as did Deidara, Fire and I, but he quickly got to his feet so he wouldn't get in shit for dropping acid on a kid.
A bit later, I saw Deidara studying some chemicals and looking at the paper in front of us that told us what NOT to combine, as they might explode. I grinned as I watched him pick up a beaker with a clear substance in it and pour a drop of it into one with a blue liquid. The concoction fizzed slightly before completely exploding, sending glass and chemicals everywhere. There was smoke everywhere and it was completely silent, until Deidara broke it.
"That was fucking AWESOME, UN!!!!" he yelled, punching a fist in the air. He turned to face me with a grin, and I saw that his face was covered with soot, except for the patch of skin and his bangs that were under his goggles. He pulled the goggles up to his forehead so that the clean patch was more visible.
"That was fuckin' amazing!" I agreed with a grin. Ms. Dignem came over to scold Deidara, though I'm sure I could see a falter in her step when she saw the grin on the blonde's face.
After getting in trouble for purposely making the chemicals spontaneously combust, Deidara was allowed to go to the bathroom to clean the soot off of his face and forearms, and try to get it out of his hair. While he was gone Fire brought up something that made me smirk.
"Oh, we didn't tell the guys what happened in gym did we?" she asked with an evil grin. Hidan heard this and turned around.
"Oooooh what happened in gym?" he asked nosily. I laughed and held up a hand.
"Wait till Dei comes back. Then I'll tell you". He frowned, but turned back around.
The moment Deidara walked back in the classroom, Hidan turned around again.
"So what happened in gym?" he asked impatiently. I rolled my eyes and waited until the blonde had sat back down and turned to face us. Ms. Dignem had decided to stop the experiment for today, so we had the rest of the class to do nothing. Sweet.
"Ok. So some preps were sitting in the corner of the gym and one was squealing over a picture. I snuck over to see what the picture was of and kinda lost it. I beat the crap outta the girl until Fire and Konan got Tobi to try and hug me. I ended up punching him in the face which knocked him out. We never found out where the teacher was but I didn't get in trouble. At all" I explained, grinning slightly.
Deidara and Hidan looked confused.
"Who was the picture of, un?" Deidara asked. I could see that he was jealous, wondering who I had gotten so mad that someone was looking at a picture of them that I had beaten the kid up. Fire and I exchanged an amused look.
"Um. . . it was this picture" I pulled the picture out of the pocket of my cow suit and handed it to him. He unfolded it and laughed.
"Wow un. . . you seriously beat a girl up for squealing over a picture of me?" the blonde asked as Hidan looked at it and laughed.
"Well she also said that it was a picture of her future boyfriend when I asked what she was doing. I kinda lost it" I laughed and scratched the back of my head. Deidara grinned at me and the bell rang. I grabbed my stuff and hugged Deidara quickly before heading off to music with Hidan and Fire.
Kisame had to move his chair over a few feet so that the petals on his costume didn't block my view of the music sheets. Which meant that I couldn't smack him in the back of the head without stretching over, which would be a huge hint to the teacher that it wasn't just Kisame being insane. Fire also had to reach with her clarinet, so music was a little low-key.
I could see the teacher glancing at Kisame every one and awhile as if wondering why he hadn't randomly outburst yet. This made me laugh, and once I started, I couldn't stop. I burst out laughing insanely and I fell off of my chair, Kisame grabbing my flute quickly so that I didn't break it. I curled into a ball on the floor as my face turned red from laughing. I swear one of these days I'm gonna die of lack of oxygen 'cuz I'm laughing too hard. Everyone stopped playing and looked at me like I had a disease. As suddenly as I had started laughing, I stopped and sat back on my chair as if nothing had happened. I took my flute from Kisame and continued playing from where everyone had left off, but when nobody else did I stopped and looked around.
"What, never seen someone laugh before?" I asked raising an eyebrow confusedly. This earned a few laughs and everyone prepared to play again.
Class was over, and I was getting hyper as I sprinted to my locker, not getting there fast enough. I beat Sasori though, who was normally there first since the wood shop class that he took with Kakuzu, Tobi, and Deidara was closer than the music room. This made sense though, since I had booked it as fast as I could in excitement. The short red-head was there soon enough, and we walked together with Tobi to meet the rest of the Akatsuki to walk to their mansion to prepare for the evening.